When I create a Loopback adapter with TCP/IP protocol on a Windows XP workstation and assign it a subnet different from my physical network card I see loopback network traffic when I take a network trace on the physical network card. This traffic is causing spoofing alerts on my firewalls and false alarms on my IDS. Plus to mention unwanted traffic on my network. A quick way to test this your self is too start network monitor on a Windows XP workstation with a loopback adapter created on it and disable and re-enable the loopback adapter. then the trace will show you traffic from the loopback adapter on the physical network.
I would like to fix this without setting up windows SP2 firewall, I have many computers in my network and don't want to have to apply a firewall to all of them using the loopback adapter, plus I don't have this problem with Windows 2000 Pro workstation. Please help anybody?
I would like to fix this without setting up windows SP2 firewall, I have many computers in my network and don't want to have to apply a firewall to all of them using the loopback adapter, plus I don't have this problem with Windows 2000 Pro workstation. Please help anybody?